Bicycles & Scooters

Chasing a toddler around certainly qualifies as exercise. Still, if you feel that it's not enough, a bicycle-mounted child seat or a bike trailer can help you to cover some ground in the name of fitness and fresh air.

Bikes come in a wide variety of designs to handle everything from a light workout to an arduous cross-country tour. To find out which types offer the best performance for different riders' needs, Consumer Reports' testers took to the streets and hills and pedaled away.